Wall-bracket extension-shelf



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A LOOMIS. 4WALL BRACKET EXTENSION SHELF.

Patented Peb. 19, '1884.'

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. A. LOOMIS.

. WALL BRACKET EXTENSION SEELE. l

No. 29.1894.-l lPanama Feb. 19, 1884.

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.ARTHUR LOOMIS, OF JEFFERSON VILLE, INDIANA.

WALL-BRACKET. EXTENSION-SHELF.

SPEOIFICAION forming part of Letters Patent No. 293,894, dated February 19, 1884. Application filed June 16,1883. (-To model.)

To a/ZZ whom, it' may cof/werkt.l`Y

Be it known that I, ARTHUR Looms, a

'citizen of the United States, residing at J effersonville, Clark county, Indiana, have invented new and useful Improvements in Wall- Bracket Extension-Shelves, of which the following is a specification. c

My invention relates to-wall-bracket extension-shelves, and has for its object the production of such a device tlie'several parts of which can readily and easily be put together and taken apart, and when united will brace and support one another and form a substantial support for books, papers, and other articles; and it consists in the Construction of the bracket, the shelves, and the suspending wires or rods, and also in the combination of the said several parts, as hereinafter particularly described.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a perspective ofthe hanging shelves with parts broken away. Fig. 2 isa plan view of a part of a shelf, and Fig. 3 a detached view of one of the suspending wires or rods.

In the drawings, the letter A indicates the end brackets, which may be of the design shown or any other design, and as plain or ornamental as desired, and are formed at their upper rear ends with downwardly-projecting or overhanging hooks a, which are designed. to enter sockets b, made in the top face of a horizontal strip, B, which is secured by screws or other suitable fastenings to the wall or other support. The end brackets are further formed with shoulders c on the rear vertical web of the bracket, as shown, against which the heads These wires or rods are bent to form two arms,

connected together at their lower ends, and formed with hooks at their upper ends, and are passed into slots e, madein the ends of the shelf and extending diagonally inward toward the center of the shelf. The hooked, ends of l the wires or rods pass through the slots in the lugs onthe brackets, as well as through the slots in the shelf, and the points of the hooks enter perforations f, made in the top face of the shelf therefor, so that the shelf is bound -between the lugs and the hooks'of the wires or rods. The lower shelves, of which there may be any number, are constructed the same as the-top shelf, and each one is suspended by the wire or rod extending down from thel shelf above, the arms of-said wires or rods entering the slots in the shelf, andthe connecting part of the rods bearing against the bottom face of the shelf, soas to support the shelf, while the hooked ends enter the same slots and their points the perforations, so that each shelf is bound or clamped both on its top and bottom face by the suspending means, and also by the same means prevented from slipping endwise from the wires or rods.

lf desired, the shelves may be supported between their ends, so as to prevent sagging, by one or morebrackets, E, constructed in all essentials like brackets A, except that the inwardly-projecting slotted lugs may be omitted, and instead thereof the top face of the bracket caused to bear against the bottom face of the shelf.- The suspending wires or rods will be the same as those used at the ends of the shelves, and they will be passed through, elongated slots g, made in the shelves, and will be attached, and will operateto bind andl support in the same manner as when used at the ends.

The device is susceptible of unlimited extension and contraction with very little labor and at the expenditure of very little time, and a shelf can be added or taken away without disturbing the others. and without leavingV wires extending, only to be unsightly and in the way. V

rIhe distance between the shelves can be regulated by substituting wires or rods of the desired length.

Vhat I claim isl. rlhe combination of supporting-brackets having .laterally-projecting shelf-supporting lugs provided with slots, a shelf having its ends supported by the lugs, suspending-wires passing through the shelf and the slots in the lugs, and having their upper ends hooked to clamp the upper shelf between the lugs and IOO the upper ends of the wires, and a shelf suspended by the lower portions of the wires, substantially as described.

2. The combination of a horizontal strip, snpportingsbraekets having hooks engaging with the strip and provided with laterallyprojeeting slotted lugs, a shelf supported at its ends by the lugs, a suspending-Wire having its upper end passing through the slotted lugs and the shelf and secured on the latter to clamp it on the lugs, anda shelf suspended by the lower portions of the Wires, substantially as described.

3. The combination of supporting-brackets having laterallyprojeeting shelf-supporting lugs, a shelf having its ends supported bythe lugs, suspending-wires passing through the shelf, and having hooks at their upper ends secured upon the upper surfaces of the shelf, and a shelf suspended 'by the lower portions of the Wires, substantially as described.

1. The combination of supporting-brackets having inwardly-projecting slotted lugs and overhanging hooks, a horizontal bracketsup porting strip with which the hooks engage, a shelf having its ends resting on the slotted lugs, suspending-Wires passing through the shelf-and the slotted lugs, and having their upper ends provided with hooks resting upon the upper surface of the shelf to clamp the latter on the lugs, and a shelf suspended by the lower portions of the Wires, substantially as described.

5. The combination, in wall-bracket shelves, of supporting-brackets having,` inwardly-pro' jecting slotted lugs, a series of shelves having their ends provided with slots open at one end, and the upper shelf having its ends arranged on the lugs,and snsp ending-Wires passing through the slots in the respective shelves and the slots in the lugs, and having their upper ends provided With hooks resting upon the upper surfaee of the shelf to clamp the latter on the lugs, substantially as described.

6. The combination, in a Wall-bracket shelf, of a horizontal strip, supporting-brackets hav ing laterally-proj eeting slotted lugs at their sides and downwardly-proj eating hooks at one end to engage over the upper edge ofthe strip,

a top shelf having its ends resting on the lugs,

suspendingwvires carrying` a shelf at their lower ends, and having their upper ends passed through the slots in the lugs and attached to the top shelf to clamp the latter on the lugs, suspendingovires detaehably secured to the ends of the shelf, suspended from the wires connected to the top-shelf, and a shelf detach ably supported by the said detachable wires, substantially as described.

ln testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ARTHUR LOOMIS.

Witnessesz HENRY PoLLooK, MARY B. ONGLnY. 

